Etymology

function

func·tion
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Today it means: What something does or is used for. Full definition →

Middle French function ← Old French fonction ← Latin fūnctiō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰewg-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰunégti
  3. Proto-Italic*fungōr
  4. Latinfungor
  5. Latinfūnctiō
  6. Old Frenchfonction
  7. Middle Frenchfunction
  8. English todayfunction

From Middle French function, from Old French fonction, from Latin functiō (“performance, execution”), from functus, perfect participle of fungor (“to perform, execute, discharge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to enjoy”).

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Proto-Indo-European*bʰewg- all →

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